Is this a prolapse?

[Kayleyanniex]

Hi guys, just looking for some advise so I gave birth nearly 3 months ago now and I have recently started to get pain again in my pelvic floor so I decided to have a feel around and I instantly felt a huge bulging inside my vagina which has scared me quite a lot. Is this a prolapsed pelvic floor?? If so does it a go away on its own. I will be booking into the doctor’s next week. ❤️

Yes, sounds like it. You're still early post partum, but no, it won't totally go without you doing anything. I'd start off by downloading the NHS squeezy app to help with pelvic floor exercises and find a women's health physio as GPs are often crap for this. You've still got a lot of healing to do post birth and with the right exercises should make a lot of progress 😊

First of all don’t panic - prolapse’s are really common postnatally affecting 1 in 12 women. A bulge within the vagina could potentially be a prolapse yes, it’s possible for the bladder, bowel or uterus to descend.

management depends on the severity of the prolapse and if your family is complete, for milder prolapses, pelvic health physio and pelvic floor exercises will rectify most symptoms. Severe prolapses require surgery but these are the ones descending outside the actual vagina.
Hope that helps.

@Emma543 hi Emma thank you for this reply. This gives me some reassurance. I was very scared when I first felt the lump. I would like to know which organ has descended. My boyfriend had a look and he can see it inside the vagina. I think it may be the uterus. The joys of childbirth xx

@Stirrednshaken thank you for this reply! Yeah I felt really scared when I felt it last night I was just like what the hell is that. I have tried doing the pelvic floor exercises however is gives me period like cramping discomfort after I don’t know if this is normal. Did you suffer with a prolapse? Xx

Yeah I was a shock when I found mine too! I've got a rectocele where the back wall bulges forward. It now doesn't cause me any symptoms like heaviness or discomfort unless I carry my toddler in the backpack carrier a lot as that puts a lot of pressure through my core. Most of the time I can't feel it either, although just before my period it is worse. X

@Stirrednshaken have you? Did yours come on later on in postpartum? Mine has only just appeared I was fine a few months ago. It’s good that you don’t experience any symptoms I’ve got quite a lot of heaviness and discomfort in mine. I really hoping it goes better in time xx

No, I felt something "give" during labour so think it was then but it was only about two weeks later when I was investigating what was going on that I found the bulge. It felt very heavy to start off with but that's totally gone now